[Kbabel] Adding Arabic to Automatic Detection of Plural Forms

[Isam Bayazidi]

On Thursday 07 November 2002 13:14, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> > I want to know how can I define the number of Plural Forms for Arabic ..
> > what file in the Kbabel Source Tree contains these definitions ?
>
> Now I see: it's in common/catalog.cpp
> Catalog::getNumberOfPluralForms(const QString& lang).
>
> Please, try the attached patch.

It does the trick .. Now Kbabel will automatically detect the number of Plural 
Forms for Arabic .. thanks .. I suppose that it will be merged to the main 
tree soon ..

Now anther probelm related to Plural Forms rise:
- Strings with Plural Forms had been always detected as Faulty in terms of 
Arguments Check .. As you know with Plural Forms you will repeat arguments 
for every plural form:
"_n: %1 of 1 Image loaded.\n
%1 of %n Images loaded..."

In it's translation for Arabic the %n will be repeated 2 times, while %1 will 
be repeated 4 times ( no need to go through details of the plural forms of 
Arabic) .. and I suppose that the case could be the same for other languages 
..

a Simple thing to do is to bypass Plural Forms Strings when doing the 
Arguments Check .. as they do not comply to 1:1 ratio of arguments between 
original string and translated string .. and at the same time it is not 
always 1:1*n ( while n is the number of plural forms for the language) 
specially for the argument %n that does not necessarily repeat ..


Yours
Isam Bayazidi